"U.S. sales of Windows devices in the last month are down by 21% compared to the same period a year ago, with Windows-powered notebooks — generally in decline since the rise of tablets and smartphones — down by 24%. Desktop devices were down, too, but less, at 9%.

It gets worse. Microsoft has make a big bet on the touchscreen and tablets with Windows 8, but so far, NPD’s Stephen Baker says that Windows 8 tablet sales “have been almost non-existent.” "

Not that it had any impact on sales but that it is a sign of things to come.

Dell had Ubuntu computers available years ago too. I'm pretty sure they took them off the product list because they weren't selling at all. I suspect Ubuntu sales from Dell don't even show up in these numbers.

Oh come on, you're smarter than that End User. I don't know why you had to throw the Apple thing in there...

I also read in that techcrunch article that the sales for W8 they had didn't include Surface. Not that it's selling extremely well or anything, but just that they didn't even include it. Probably because MS isn't releasing numbers though.

Oh come on, you're smarter than that End User. I don't know why you had to throw the Apple thing in there...

I also read in that techcrunch article that the sales for W8 they had didn't include Surface. Not that it's selling extremely well or anything, but just that they didn't even include it. Probably because MS isn't releasing numbers though.

In my opinion, it's at least partially related to a down economy. Just because people are buying more and more things online doesn't mean that they're buying more stuff in general.

How can you compare Apple to the others based on solely on profit? Doesn't Apple make a larger margin on per device sales than just about anyone else in the industry? Gotta look at market share to see what's going on there. It gets a little fuzzy when you include mobile devices though, I guess.